On 12/18/06, Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I did not find something relevant in the docs, so I'll ask here. git-diff works from everywhere in the tree, whereas cg-diff does not, is that intentional ?
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Quite a minor thing, but this could be added in the cg-diff man-page as a difference of behavior.
I'd say that it's a bug that cg-diff doesn't work in a subdir. However, there is a much more important difference between cg-diff and git-diff: cg-diff is equivalent to git-diff HEAD because cogito hides the index from you. If you are developing in a (mostly) straight line, and not dealing much with merges and rebases, that's a great simplification. If you are coming from a different SCM it's probably a good thing too. If/when you want to use git's smarts for merging and rebasing, you'll definitely want to know a lot more about the index, and you'll probably stop using cogito. (Actually, even though I know and love the index I use cogito all the time, and switch to git commands for merging and rebasing. Works great... and yet Linus is in a merge-centric role, so changing the defaults to ignore the index most of the time is a bit of a hot issue ;-) ) cheers, martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html